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Re: Another attempt to introduce myself

From:Matthew Butt <m.butt@...>
Date:Thursday, July 11, 2002, 14:43
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Between |baca| which makes me think of Japanese |baka|: stupid, and the
name of
the language which make me think of the native name of Klingon, I get
the
impression that you don't like much your native language :))) .
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love it actually, but london phonology being what it is . . . !

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Lovely names :)) . French written with |ph|? Parlez-vous phrançais?
;))))
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we, en powh—an phet asey byen, bne abhek endn aksan 'batchien' !
( rounded front vowels aren't native to bac . . . hence powyh for peu,
i've maintained french word division whilst indicating liaison . . .
sorry, lyesnon )

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Well, with all those examples I have just one question: does this
language also
want to reach Maggelity? ;))))
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actually, being a language without a history, the spelling is a reliable
compromise between grammatical function and pronunciation . . . if you
think of h and n as diacritics rather than letters ( they always follow
the letter ) and y and w similarly after vowels ( ambiguity in the
transliteration here . . . they can also be full consonants ), it's
pretty phonetically accurate, at least for high register speech ( ie
that which distinguished voiced and unvoiced nasals, nasal semivowels,
and the weak l, which is usually silent but should be pronounced rather
like the /uj/ ( nearest approximation to the IPA ) semivowel ).

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Interesting derivations. What does the capitalisation of the first
letter in
suc mean? Does it have a special pronunciation?
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capitalisation is me thumbing my nose to the germans (?!) . . . it
occurs only on verbs. It indicates the main sentence stress. Verbs are
derived from nouns in this way.